MCX Holidays 2026: Month-Wise List, Timings & When Evening Session Reopens
Is MCX open today? MCX (Multi Commodity Exchange) trades commodities like gold, silver, crude oil and natural gas across two sessions every trading day: a morning session from 9:00 AM and an evening session from 5:00 PM to 11:30 PM or 11:55 PM IST (the later close applies outside US daylight-saving months, roughly November to March). Unlike NSE and BSE, MCX doesn't always shut fully on a holiday — some days it closes only the morning session and reopens for trading from 5:00 PM. That's the detail most holiday lists miss, and the one traders actually need. MCX Holidays 2026 — Month by Month Month What to expect January Republic Day (26 Jan) — full closure March Holi, Ram Navami — check evening reopen status May Regional holidays vary — several days close only the morning session August Independence Day (15 Aug) October Gandhi Jayanti (2 Oct): full closure. Dussehra (20 Oct): morning session closed, evening session reopens at 5:00 PM November Diwali/Muhurat tradin...